How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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“Science fiction is a literature about the way things *aren’t,*” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›
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“We’ve got dialogue conventions that work on a page, but we don’t have any SMS conventions. They’re inelegant. The result is that literary language loses vitality. It’s out of touch with the digital vernacular of popular speech.” – The WELL:… more ›
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“It’s hard to write fiction about technology because the structure of language is mutating.” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›
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Game of thrones with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand » He describes the preparation process as akin to plotting an ambush in a giant forest. The terrain is too vast to comprehend in its entirety, he says. “But there are… more ›
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“Dread Pirate Roberts is one of the new ones, folks. I mean those strange guys who are colossal on the Internet, while simultaneously crammed and repressed into tiny physical niches. Technically speaking, the Silk Road is very Captain Nemo and… more ›
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“Espionage is the second-oldest profession.” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›
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“That doesn’t make Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon any better than Google – Facebook in particular, oh my God – but it’s the first time that these new titans of American industry have really looked genuinely ugly. Just, nasty. Because… more ›
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“When wearables arrive, I hope they’re Italian. If you’ve gotta wear the damn things all the time, they ought to at least look elegant.” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›
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“The world in 2014 is like a globalized Twitter Egypt.” – The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 more ›
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“we see cameras transitioning into what they were bound to become: networked lenses.” (via Goodbye, Cameras : The New Yorker) more ›